WASHINGTON: United States on Thursday said “Pakistan has to go after those groups that seek to do harm to its neighbours and seek refuge on Pakistani soil.”
US Department of State spokesperson Mark Toner, “We have a strong bilateral relationship with Pakistan, but one that is premised on counter terrorism cooperation and as part of that conversation we made it very clear that Islamabad can’t pick and choose which terrorist groups it goes after and it has to go after those groups that seek to do harm to its neighbors and may seek refuge on Pakistani soil”.
He dismissed Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed’s claims that the recent India-US pact to share their military bases for repair and resupply was anti-Pakistan and meant to counter the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
Last month India, US signed the ‘Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement’.
